How Mother Wounds And Father Wounds Shape Your Nervous System

About this episode

This episode explores how mother and father wounds influence the nervous system and offers tools for healing.

We close season one with a clear look at parental wounds and how your nervous system learned what love, safety, and connection feel like. We connect those early patterns to freezing, fawning, people pleasing, and boundary struggles, then share simple somatic tools to help you come back to yourself with less shame. • defining parental wounds • explaining how the nervous system adapts • naming mother wound patterns • naming father wound patterns • practicing awareness without judgment as ...

Topics covered

• parental wounds
• nervous system
• love
• safety
• connection
• freezing
• fawning
• people pleasing
• boundary struggles
• somatic tools

Keywords

• awareness
• shame
• patterns

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